Elephant News Reporter Wu Bin / Compilation
Trump looks serious as he walks into the room
New book by New York Times reporter Peter Baker and New Yorker magazine reporter Susan Glasser, "The Divided: Special Trump in the White House, 2017-2021" will be published on September 20, local time in the United States. The book discloses that in the final weeks of his term, former President Trump was worried about the assassination of Iranian General Soleimani by the United States. And assassinate himself.
In April 2019, the United States defined Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force as a terrorist group. The Pentagon said Soleimani, a former brigade commander of the Quds Force, had been "actively developing plans to attack US diplomats and service members in Iraq." On January 3, 2020, Soleimani was killed by the US military with an MQ-9 Reaper drone as he left Baghdad airport .
Afterward, Trump boasted about the assassination at a rally in Toledo, Ohio: "We stopped him, we stopped him quickly, we stopped him ruthlessly. He's a bad guy, he's a drug addict Bloody terrorist, (now) he's no longer a terrorist, he's dead."
But less than a year later, Trump looked less optimistic, according to Glasser and Baker.
On December 16, 2020, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei tweeted: "Those who ordered the murder of General Soleimani and those who carried out this murder should be punished , retaliation will come as expected.”
Baker and Glasser wrote that Trump and his advisers considered launching a new attack, but gave up because Trump’s time in power was about to expire. The
book says, "At a cocktail party, Trump told a few of his Florida friends that he was worried that Iran would try to assassinate him, so he had to go back to Washington, where it was safer."
via : Guardian September 14
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